WHAT EVENT OR PROJECT OR PROGRAMME OR CAMPAIGN THAT NEEDS SUPPORT ▼
We always have initiatives that need funding and/or other forms of support.
We would like to ask you to Help the Out-of-school Children Join the Other Ones in the Classroom in Africa (In Short: Help the Out-of-school Children in Africa).
• What Is ‘Help the Out-of-school Children in Africa’?
It is a humanitarian education appeal, targeted fundraising and advocacy campaign designed to provide out-of-school children – often displaced by wars, poverty or natural disasters – with the tools, safe spaces, and resources needed to enter or return to a traditional classroom.
• Goals of This Appeal
The goals of this appeal include both tactical and strategic ones.
• • Tactical Goals
They are
σ to provide learning essentials (i.e., supplying books, uniforms and other educational/learning materials) to pull children out of out-of-school poverty
σ to rebuild infrastructure (i.e., repair damaged schools because of wars, conflicts and climate shocks)
σ to support integration (by funding teacher training and educators)
σ to create alternative pathways (i.e., funding accelerated learning programmes for children who missed years of schooling due to war, displacement and post-pandemic fallout).
Besides the above-mentioned goals, there are strategic long-term goals.
• • Strategic Long-term Goals
Strategic goals are categorized as follows.
σ Infrastructure and Capacity
It is about funding repairs for classrooms damaged by climate events or conflicts, while providing local teachers with steady stipends.
σ Vocational Pathways
This involves supporting older youth with specialized technical training and startup kits for self-employment.
σ Systemic Shift
This covers allying with groups to target marginalized or disabled children missing out on foundational learning.
• Key Statistics and Numbers
At the moment, in a number of places in Africa, there are children who have not been able to go back to school because of various causes or factors such as conflicts, displacement, natural disasters, economic hardship, and lack of resources. Key statistics and numbers enable speak about it.
Writing on the number of out-of-school population, ‘mohacafrica.org’ (1) notes that
“Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 98 million to 100 million out-of-school children and youth, making it the region with the largest out-of-school population in the world”.
Similarly, looking at the same population in terms of global share, ‘unesco.org’ (2) states that
“Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for roughly 30% to nearly 40% of the entire global out-of-school population (which stands at approximately 273 million worldwide)”.
Studying the growth factor for the out-of-school population, ‘world-education-blog.org’ (3) points out that
“Sub-Saharan Africa remains the primary region where the out-of-school population is continuing to rise because educational expansion fails to match rapid population growth – the school-age population has grown by over 80% since 2000″.
Yet, it is possible reduce the number of out-of-school children in Africa.
• Helping to Reduce Out-of-school Poverty in Africa
You can…
σ help out-of-school children to go back to school
σ reduce out-of-school poverty in Africa
σ strengthen teacher training in Africa
σ donate money and / or give in kind or influence for children’s education, protection and security
σ invest in inclusive education for vulnerable and educationally needy children
σ enable schools to reopen for these children
σ fill the gap left by international aid and donor funding cuts
σ scale down crises, conflicts and human-driven climate shocks that continue to disrupt learning environments and forced widespread school closing
σ help out-of-school return to the classroom, particularly but not exclusively those who were pushed out of school because of the lingering effects from crises, conflicts, post-pandemic fallout, and climate shocks.
Please do not wait to donate or influence as the needs are pressing and urgent NOW.
• Donations
Your targeted donations to Help the Out-of-school Children in Africa can
σ directly fund back-to-school relief
σ provide daily nutrition
σ cover enrollment fees to immediately transition out-of-school children back into classrooms as the new academic year begins for some of them or will start soon for others.
• Direct Impact of Donations
The following impacts can happen depending on whether you decide to fund uniforms or nutrition or sponsor a child or even develop educational infrastructure.
σ Supplies and uniforms
Modest gifts (such as £45) can help buy books, writing tools, and uniforms that will prevent families from keeping children home due to hidden school costs.
σ Nutritional Support
Contributions around £50 can secure a child’s school meals for a month, improving attendance and focus in class.
σ Full Year Sponsorship
Investments around £150 can cover complete tuition, health support, and basic psychological care for an entire school year.
Please Help the Out-of-school Children Join the Other Ones in the Classroom in Africa.
Please do not wait to donate as the needs are pressing and acute now.
To support and or enquire about this out-of-school poverty relief appeal, please contact CENFACS.
The Out-of-school Children in Africa are looking forward to your autumn support to make helpful difference to them.
Thank you for your generosity.
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• References
(1) https://mohacafrica.org/out-of-school-children (accessed in September 2026)
(2) https://www.unesco.org/gem-report/en/articles/what-does-2026-gem-report-say-about-access-and-equity-education (accessed in September 2026)
(3) https://world-education-blog.org/2026/03/26/the-out-of-school-population-has-risen-for-a-seventh-year-in-a-row/ (accessed in September 2026)
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How
you can further support CENFACS ▼
You can help by
● Sending a one-off voluntary giving ● Sending a yearly contribution to CENFACS ● Providing a legacy or donation ● Sponsoring a particular project, need, cause or programme ● Promoting particular events or publications or even activities
You can as well support with No Direct Cash Donations
Those who would like to support CENFACS by using other means than directly giving cash, they can consider the following:
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Give unwanted goods and items to CENFACS charity e-store (details about this way of supporting are given below)
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Sign up for a Gift Aid declaration
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Nominate CENFACS for a donation at charity fundraising and donation events
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Select CENFACS as your preferred charity for donation from advertising revenue
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Choose CENFACS as a donation recipient of some of the profits raised from online shopping
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Donate your unwanted and unused points and cashback to CENFACS as your chosen charity from your loyalty shopping rewards or good cause gift cards
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Name CENFACS as your favourite deserving cause from click online option “donate cashback to charities”
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Donate any unwanted excess points of your loyalty card from apps.
The above is just the few examples of helping that one can think of to support CENFACS without they have to directly give cash.
Supporting by Donating Unwanted Goods and Products for CENFACS Zero Waste e-Store ▼
You can donate unwanted and unneeded light and easily movable goods and products to CENFACS’ Charity e-Store to support good and deserving causes of poverty reduction.
After donating products or goods, these will be converted into cash to support good causes or our work. The cash converted can also be used to support CENFACS‘ work.
When thinking of donation, please ensure that your donation does not bear high costs for us to handle, otherwise the impact you want to create through your giving will be reduced or nullified.
Items to donate include:
Mobile phones, IT accessories, laptops, digital and communication devises, art and design objects, children gadgets and toys, and miscellaneous.
Notes for goods and products donors (Products Acceptance Policy):
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- We do not take electrical equipment and devises
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- Items donated need to be functioning, not requiring fixing, repair or testing prior to use
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- Products given must have environmentally-friendly contents and be sustainable
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- We do not accept heavy items such as books, metals and a heavy bag of clothing
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- We do not take items requiring large storage capacity as we are not a profit making organisation
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- We do not refund or give back the products donated as we expect products givers or donors to act in good faith and in the interest of poverty alleviation
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- We do not take stolen properties or items in dispute
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- We can arrange for collection if you live locally
Help us to convert your unwanted goods or products into cash to help reduce poverty.
To donate or enquire about your products donation, please contact CENFACS.
Thank you for your support!
Choosing the Beneficiaries of your Support▼
You can choose or indicate
● The type of beneficiaries of your contribution
● The project or country where your support has to be allocated
● To help CENFACS’ running costs
● To leave to CENFACS the choice (freedom) to decide on the best possible use of your support
● To delegate your responsibility to CENFACS to execute your wishes
Reporting on your support ▼
As a result of your giving, you can ask us to send you
● Either the report or a summary of change that your support has brought to beneficiary people.
● Either the report on the project or area or even country that you have supported
● Either the report on CENFACS’ works and activities
MAKING A DONATION TO CENFACS IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF MONEY. IT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST THE SHARING AND DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Executing your wishes to support ▼
● Through donation in cheques, postal orders, vouchers, online and paper free payments made payable to CENFACS
CENFACS offers straightforward and easy ways for individuals and organisations to help projects and project beneficiaries. Donations can be made directly to CENFACS Fund for Poverty Relief and Development or CENFACS grant making programme or even indirectly to help with CENFACS‘ running costs in order to deliver its programmes.
Making a donation to CENFACS is not only about the transfer of money. It is first and foremost the sharing and development of knowledge and skills. Through our Development Programmes, we work in strategic partnership with Africa-based organisations through a participative and bottom-up approach to set up and develop sustainable initiatives. Our African project partners initiate projects and CENFACS help them to plan, execute, control and close the project in the most successful way. CENFACS also helps them to develop a viable, accountable way to helping them to help themselves in building their capacity, particularly in the ever changing development landscape as it deems the case now with the 2030 Agenda and Global Goals for Sustainable Development, the new International Climate Change Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063.
● Other ways of supporting us include:
Legacies, gifts, sponsorship, premises, web advertising, direct marketing, events, training, digital technologies, public relations and social media (communications). It is in this way your support can make a world of helpful differences.
Volunteering at CENFACS ▼
<> About CENFACS Volunteering Opportunities
Volunteering at CENFACS is about giving the opportunity to volunteers to acquire direct exposure to CENFACS’ work and/or to compliment development-oriented learning with practical experience for those who are planning to take up a career or to further their practice in international development. We review our volunteer opportunities every quarter.
To find out and/or discuss what opportunity is available, please contact All in Development at CENFACS and read/check our BLOG page every quarter.
When contacting us,
● Either you could let us know the role or kind of work you would like to carry out
● Or we can explore together areas of work or role which may be suitable for you
● Or even we could simply tell you what voluntary position is available
<> Applying to become a CENFACS Volunteer